e-skills procom

The IT Professional Competency Model

 

 The IT professional Competency Model (e-skills procom) is being established as an industry-recognised, internationally relevant training framework for organising courses and qualifications by the disciplines of the IT profession. Built on IT professional National Occupational Standards, and linked to the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA), e-skills procom defines knowledge, understanding and competencies for seven broad disciplines (and their sub-disciplines) at five levels of progression, incorporating technical, business and personal skills.

The disciplines are:
1. Sales and marketing
2. Business change
3. Programme and project management
4. Solutions architecture
5. Solution development and implementation
6. Information management and security
7. IT service management and delivery

e-skills procom is the basis for e-skills UK's work to reform and simplify the qualifications map for IT professionals. It will help IT professionals to achieve recognition for their skills, and employers to plan training and development. It will also help providers of education and training to develop new courses to meet the needs of different IT disciplines.

e-skills UK is now developing a comprehensive mapping of courses and qualifications against e-skills procom. This mapping will be accessible from SFIA, and the courses will be available through the National Skills Academy, which will be launched in 2010.

In addition, the new IT and Telecoms Professional National Occupational Standards (NOS) have been developed in parallel with and as part of e-skills procom. For more details on the NOS, go to Standards and Skills Frameworks.

An overview brochure of e-skills procom is available below:

e-skills procom brochure (PDF - 342KB)

 

Last modified: 19 Oct 2009